But I'm sure you'll find stats and horror stories that say otherwise, as if, somehow, Apple (or anyone) is capable of producing hardware and software that's impossible to break, never fails, and lasts forever.
It does a lot of things right - especially sleep - however I'm constantly running into problems with buggy software which is unfixable because Apple don't do compatibility.
Also not having a battery which can be replaced or storage which can be user-upgraded is absolute garbage in 2022.
EDIT: if I was still a gamer I'd be laughing the MacBook out of the room.
User upgradeable storage is a very niche feature.
You're aware that the compatibility of any software (that's not Apple software) is the responsibility of the software vendor with regards to making it work on Silicon? Have I misunderstood you here? You can't actually expect Apple to just magically make code designed for one CPU architecture just work on another? There's kernel level translations you can do between opcodes, but that can't be expected to be perfect. The perfect solution is the vendor updates their software.
Microsoft on the other hand: Windows is literally full of work-arounds they added to ensure that new releases did not break existing software.
Apple at this point is FAR larger company than Microsoft was in the early 2000s. They're a goliath and should be more than capable of doing what Microsoft did.
2014 MBP: worked well for a couple of years, then developed a fault where it randomly half comes out of sleep, then gets very hot, even when closed in a bag.
2018 MBP: randomly completely crashes, with no warning whatsoever, roughly once a day.
I think you'd like apple silicon macs.